262 SPHAERODACTYLUS. 



Dimensions: — Total length 58 mm. 



Tip of snout to vent 32 mm. 



Vent to tip of tail 26 mm. 



Greatest width of head 5 mm. 



Tip of snout to ear 7 . 5 mm. 



Fore limb 8 mm. 



Hind limb 11 mm. 



Remarks: — This fine species is known from a single specimen in the Gundlach 

 collection in Havana, from one taken by Mr. Barnum Brown at the Sierra de 

 Jatibonico and the series of six which I took under stones in dense woods in the 

 Sierra de San Juan de los Perros. Gundlach remarks upon three specimens taken 

 at La Fermina near Bemba (now Jovellanos) ; two of these may have been sent 

 to Peters and may still be in BerUn. 



28. Sphaerodactylus fantasticus Dum^ril & Bibron. 

 Plate 8, fig. 1; Plate 22, fig. 5-8. 



Sphaerodactylus fantasticus Dum6ril «& Bibron, Erp. gen., 1836, 3, p. 406, pi. 32. 



Sphaerodactylus fantasticus Boulenger {non Dum. & Bibr.), Cat. lizards Brit. Mus., 1885, 1, p. 223 (Cara- 

 cas and Antigua). 



Sphaerodactylus fantasticus Andersson {non Dum. & Bibr.), Bih. K. Svensk. vet. akad. Handl., 1900, 26, 

 no. 4, p. 28. 



Sphaerodactylus fantasticus Barbour, Proc. Biol. see. Wash., 1915, 28, p. 72. 



Type-locality: — Martinique? They almost certainly came from Guade- 

 loupe. (C/. Barbour, loc. cit.) 



Type: — Collected by M. Pl^e, a contributor to the Paris Museum, whose 

 material has been the source of endless confusion. Plee evidently shipped his 

 material from Martinique with apparently no warning that it had been collected 

 from a host of different localities. 



Distribution: — Confined to Guadeloupe Island. 



Diagnosis: — Rather large, with large keeled imbricate dorsals about seven 

 or eight equalling distance from tip of snout to centre of eye ; a middorsal zone 

 of much smaller scales, scales of top of snout and vertex verj' homogeneous in 

 size; four scales about equal in size bordermg rostral posteriorly; ventrals 

 weakly keeled. 



Description: — M. C. Z. 10,633, one of a series of about one hundred collected 

 by G. K. Noble in Guadeloupe, in 1914. 



Snout neither conspicuously long nor pointed; the eye about midway be- 

 tween tip of snout and ear; rostral large, with median cleft; nostril between 

 rostral, first supralabial, a small supranasal and two other small scales; supra- 



